December work

Catching up again on what I did during this month.......

9 Dec 2012
I weeded and dug up the northern corner of the patch to airate it. I dug up some of the dreeded and bad baffalo grass that spreads like a cancer.

Watered the garden.

Noticed the Zuchini, Cucumber, Climbing Beans are sprouting.

Also notice the photos I took as below. First shows where I dug up. Second shows watering, WoW!

13 Dec 2012
Again I dug up a small section of the vegetable garden to airate it and getting it ready for future planting.

Noticed the Shallots, Purple Carrots, Silverbeet showing through now.

Weather warming up and things starting to take off now.

17 Dec 2012
Noticed the Pumpkin I planted has come through, and both batches of carrots are now taking off, and potatoes are growing well and have really surfaced.

I have been watering every morning for a few weeks now, so all starting to fall into place. But the weeds are starting to come through so I need to begin to pull weeds every day, bit by bit. See below pictures.

.....now up to date.

Happy gardening!

Regards, Steve the VegyGardener.

More Summer Seed Sowing

Hi

On the 8th December 2012, I sowed 9 x Jarrahdale Pumpkin plants, 18 x Sweetcorn, & Mixed coloured Carotts. I then watered. I noticed Rocket and Raddish peaking through. See pictures below:

Short but sweet post, thanks for your interest. S.

Hey to the 6+ billion of you,

I'm playing catch up here.

Back on the 2 December 2012 I did a lot of work in the vegetable garden. My bro in the days before pulled out all the weeds from the patch (well 97% of it). Believe me the weeds and grass in the patch were up to my hips in height. It was shit. See the below picture.

Anyway with all the weeds behind me, I turned over afew days later some of the soil to air it out and I added compost which I had going for a good year. And dug it over again. BTW, there are millions of grass seeds from all the weeds, scattered all over the patch. So I havee to keep aim at removing the new grass/weeds as they grow.

So on the 2nd December I sowed the following seeds into the patch:

1. Rocket.
2. Shallots.
3. Two zuchini plants.
4. Purple haze carotts.
5. Climbing beans.
6. Cucumbers.
7. Coriander.
8. Six tomato varieties namely:
  a) Marglobe Lycopersicon lycoperscum;
  b) Tommy Toes;
  c) Black Cherry  Lycopersicon lycoperscum;
  d) Ox Heart Red;
  e) Two Roma Tomatoes;
  f) Beef Steak;
9. Basil.
10. Cos lettuce.
11. Oregano.
12. Four rows of potatoes (not sure which variety, just threw them in as they were last years stock.

I watered the garden and dug up most of the last potatoes. My bro when weeding took up afew of the garlic I planted, so there is only about four garlic plants left. I don't blame him, there was so much weeds. See the pictures below.

So yes, I look forward to this seasons vegetable gardening.

Regardo, S.